Land for Peace?

Land for …?

Exchange

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Tamar Willis

פיקוח תחנם נפש לא קדושת

הארץ

Historical Precedents morale

Land for Peace

Who are Israel’s neighbors?

See Devarim 7:1-6

To which kind of people are we forbidden to give land?

Do these laws

apply to other

countries?

What does this tell us about the Land of Israel?

Part II: Land for Peace:

Why or why not?

A hostile army attacks you, or threatens to attack you, and demands a piece of territory. They say, "Give us this piece of land, and we'll leave you alone."

Do we go to war to prevent the enemy's advancing on our territory, or do we relinquish (give up) the territory in return for a promise of future non-aggression?

ואפלו נפשות עסקי על באו,סתם

זין בכלי עליהם יוצאיםהשבת את עליהם .ומחללין

Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim 329:6

• When there is a [Jewish] city close to the border, then, even if [enemies mount an attack, alyough they] come only for the purpose of [taking] straw and stubble, we should [take up arms] and desecrate the Sabbath because of them. For [if we do not prevent their coming] they may conquer the city, and from there the [rest of the] land will be easy for them to conquer.

עדין באו לא ואפלו) זרוע ) אור לבא רוצים אלא

Liat Bainvoll

יעבור ועל יהרג

נפש פיקוחProtect by

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Historical precedents

Jerusalem, 70 BCE

Egypt/Sinai Peninsula,

1979

Historical precedents

Gush Katif, 2005Jordan, 1994

Historical precedents

Almost Land for Peace

Yitzchak Rabin, Ehud Barak and Yassir Arafat

King Hizkiyahu, 1000 BCE